Fan Voting Influence
On weeks four and five Ford and Fox were eliminated, despite Ford having tied in first place, and Fox tied in fourth. Ford was in the bottom two along with Springer, who was tied for the lowest score. Fox was in the bottom two along with Coleman, who both performed great the previous week and tied for fourth that week. Ford's elimination was booed by the audience, and so was Fox's. This extends the theme similar to last season where dancers with higher scores were often eliminated before ones that tended to get lower scores and also had more popularity with the fan vote. This circumstance would also happen again in season 11, with Bristol Palin getting the lowest scores in many consecutive weeks and higher scoring couples being eliminated. The Opie and Anthony radio show ran a campaign to keep Springer on the show, urging their fan base (nicknamed pests) to repeatedly vote for the pair, despite Jerry Springer's repeated live call-ins urging them to "give him a break."
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Famous quotes containing the words fan, voting and/or influence:
“Anyone with any real blood in his or her ... veins cannot help being a fan ....Being a true American and being a fan are synonymous.”
—Lulu Glaser (1874–1958)
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the intentions of the Creator.” But their platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)